An indulgent decadent five layer chocolate cake which I baked exclusively for this valentine’s day. I believe chocolate is one of the greater sensuous and aphrodisiac food known and loved by people of all age. After all who doesn’t like chocolate as a special treat. So, I couldn’t think anything beyond dark sensuous chocolate. …

My life has seen a short yet sweet and vibrant serendipity, just like these sweet and saffron colored vibrant mangoes. And I need to tell you all lovely readers, the reason for this sweet happening. After all, it is all your love and appreciation, which I have been blessed with, all these years. …

So we wanted to go out and spend the entire day on weekend in a farm or some park or even near a river, if possible. Because it is spring officially for us. Winters are long gone and it’s definitely the time to step out. Sun is rising and shining with cool breeze flowing through the ears. Such immense pleasure to soak up all that positivity which this bright and sunny weather brings along with it! I had been waiting for this weather eagerly and lots of ideas were playing on my mind since then. I wanted to make lots of picnic food and bake those lovely fruity summer berry cakes. But rarely the things go the way you would have thought them to happen! It wasn’t different anyway this time too. Friends had plans of their own for almost during the entire Spring season. And I couldn’t wait. So, I baked these lovely strawberry & almond friands, bottled some fresh milk, tucked in some seasonal juicy berries, a bottle of jam, a flask of tea and few books to read and of course a dear friend to share this joy with me. Though we couldn’t find a river but we got ourselves this beautiful airy and sunny solace in the middle of a farm nearby, where we soaked in the beauty of greener fields. It was a dream which we lived through our entire day in that farm, munching on to these yummy berry cakes, reading books, and soaking up sun.